You’re also assuming I’m not being persecuted.

Big if true.

It’s not pettiness. These are brave defenders of the liberal international order.

FYI, lately it’s a different user (or account, anyway) who downvotes your non-negative articles about China.

The languages that are vulnerable are vulnerable https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endangered_language

fail-safe motherfucker do you speak it

I wonder how James Rehwald and Lady Izdihar manage to survive on TikTok then.

Doubling down on feigned obtuseness, I see.

You can take the girl out of Reddit, but can’t take the Reddit out of the girl.

The same numerically. You’re not that obtuse, so is this a joke or are you a cringey debatelord?

social justice warriors

Okay boomer.

Not sure—I haven’t read any fascist manifestos. Maybe Blackshirts and Reds.

Dugin isn’t “Putin’s Brain” any more than Navalny was, but he is popular with some US & European fascists.

• https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Dugin
• 📺 Caleb Maupin speaks next to Aleksandr Dugin at Alternatives To Globalization Conference in 2018

There are already dozens of decent feed aggregators, and I’m not interested in Lemmy tacking on functionality that’s superfluous to social media. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_feed_aggregators

Or do you mean follow or block posted links to sites? That functionality already partially exists at the admin level. We can block posts of URLs to specific domains. https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/4514

There’s already a ticket for per-user URL blocklists: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/4689

I haven’t read the article, but be warned that 972 is an Israeli liberal Zionist rag.

“Anyone who disagrees with me is a paid Russian shill.”

• IT Pro: Cambridge Analytica models were exaggerated and ineffective, [UK Information Commissioner’s Office] claims
• Wall Street Journal: Mueller Doesn’t Find Trump Campaign Conspired With Russia
• Jacobin: Democrats and Mainstream Media Were the Real Kremlin Assets
• Washington Post: FEC fines DNC, Clinton for violating rules in funding Steele dossier
• Washington Post: Russian trolls on Twitter had little influence on 2016 voters
• Jacobin: It Turns Out Hillary Clinton, Not Russian Bots, Lost the 2016 Election
• Matt Taibbi: Move Over, Jayson Blair: Meet Hamilton 68, the New King of Media Fraud The Twitter Files reveal that one of the most common news sources of the Trump era was a scam, making ordinary American political conversations look like Russian spywork
• Jacobin: Why the Twitter Files Are in Fact a Big Deal On the Left, there’s been a temptation to dismiss the revelations about Twitter’s internal censorship system that have emerged from the so-called Twitter Files project. But that would be a mistake: the news is important and the details are alarming.
• MSNBC Repeats Hamilton 68 Lies 279 Times in 11 Minutes
• Matt Taibbi: CIA “Cooked The Intelligence” To Hide That Russia Favored Clinton, Not Trump In 2016
• Aaron Maté: Under Trump, the CIA is still covering up its Russiagate fraud
• Matt Taibbi: Note on New Trump-Russia Disclosures Thanks to explosive new document releases, the Russiagate hoax is now exposed, commencing a new era that will be about accountability for the guilty
• Matt Taibbi: No Doubt Left: Russiagate Was a Cover-Up
• Chris Hedges: Why Russiagate Won’t Go Away The cynical con the Democratic Party and the F.B.I. carried out to falsely portray Donald Trump as a puppet of the Kremlin worked, and continues to work, because it is what those who detest Trump want to believe.

I believe we need dedicated spaces for political discussion that are not based on algorithms optimized for engagement (aka outrage).

So do we, which is one of the reasons why Lemmy was created, and why Lemmy does not have algorithms for rage engagement. Lemmy is all cost and no revenue, so there is no financial incentive for it to “maximize ‘engagement.’”

The first is a way to limit bots or bad actors from participating in discussions.

Where are the actually-existing the “bot problems” on Lemmy? While it could happen, I don’t think it actually is happening to any significant extent presently.

Yeah, this is community rule 2. I’ll leave this up, but please refrain in the future, @ExtremeDullard@piefed.social.

obvious bluff is obvious

Reappropriation is a thing.

So on the one side I will talk about how renting is not bad when the person who “owns” property lives there and get a lot of flak.

I’m a former owner-occupant of a multi-unit property. This is a textbook petit bourgeois assertion, the kind of thing that Bernie Sanders might say. He’ll rail against crony capitalism and über capitalism but not per se capitalism. Petit capitalism as a treat inevitably leads to the haute capitalism and oligarchy we suffer under today.